Chasing Color Transparency Effects via ρ Electroproduction off Nuclei

Probing the confinement dynamics of quarks and gluons, the building blocks of atomic nuclei, and the related in-medium stimulated effects is one of the challenging objectives of modern subatomic physics, given that the deeper one looks, the more perplexing the strongly interacting particles, namely hadrons, behave. The study of this behavior, as described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions, could rely on investigating intrinsic QCD phenomena such as Color Transparency, in which small-size configurations are created and propagate through the nuclear medium with almost nil interactions with the surrounding color field and thus exit the nucleus intact. In this talk, I will give a brief description of my Ph.D. project, which accumulated data on fall 2023 in Hall B at Jefferson Lab using the CLAS12 detector and various nuclear targets: deuterium, carbon, copper, and tin, and then present the ongoing calibration and analysis efforts to extract its preliminary results.